If the term is a matter of origin, well I can't say there are "aliens" ... but as to the typical use of the term, there most definitely are aliens. No doubt about that. Maybe you'll never experience them in a definitive way, but they are here. Oh well, keep living!!

“The president receives daily briefings about their activities. Analysts believe their technology to be so far advanced that we stand little chance of survival in any potential war. The general sentiment is that we are but ants from their perspective, so there is little chance they would empathize or attempt to communicate with us, and the current contingency plan is to detonate nuclear weapons in deep caverns to ‘sting’ the foe we have no hope of destroying in hopes it would discourage further attacks.”

This site (chronicle.su) is continuing a horrible trend that basically amounts to a disinformation smear campaign against social media and forums like this. By taking real, breaking, and important news scenarios and creating fake stories based on half truth; and combining them with conspiracy theory as if they are fact, it serves to discredit both the original story, and the conspiracy theory.

Even worse, when community theorists re-post and spout these stories as truth (which they appear to be, if you don't check... anything) it discredits the theorist as well. Basically the entire social news machine comes crashing to a halt when nothing anyone posts can be trusted as accurate.

Everyone needs to think about the stories they post, look for key facts, and when something is... "fishy" ... ignore it.